"The most hated three words in New Orleans this summer:

CONE OF PROBABILITY"
-- docbrite

While the National Weather Service still has us within Hurricane Ike's "Cone of Probability", as of this afternoon for the first time ALL the Weather Underground computer models now have it going to Texas ( Read more... )

Category 4.

Final preparations for bugging out underway.

Barring a major change in the track of Gustav, Hollie and I will be bugging out Sunday morning ( Read more... )

H and I are contemplating it might be road trip time again, as Hurricane Gustav is forcasted to be heading to the central Gulf Coast ( Read more... )

Tropical Storm Zeta is in the Atlantic. Zeta!Looks like the calendar year is ending in time for them not to have a Hurricane Omega. This year ( Read more... )

Hurricane Wilma

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New Yorker article on Hurricanes Betsy and Katrina in New Orleans:

High Water: How presidents and citizens react to disaster

So, Rita clobbered Beaumont and Lake Charles, and evacuees will be heading back to Houston and the coast over the next couple of days-- so even if we could go back to New Orleans now, sounds like a hard time to negotiate the route between here and there ( Read more... )

The majority of the part of New Orleans that was already built up in the 19th century (naturally higher ground) survived the flooding of Katrina ( Read more... )

mshollie & I got our free Tetanaus & Dyptheria vacinations this morning at a nearby clinic. I have a Snoopy bandage on my arm; Hoille requested a Sponge Bob, but they didn't have any so she settled for Bugs Bunny ( Read more... )